Awake Lyrics Album by Dream Theater
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Album Lyrics
1. 6:00
“Six o’clock on a Christmas morning…”
“And for what?”
“Well, isn’t it for the honor of God, Aunt Kate?”
“I know all about the honor of God, Mary Jane.”
Six o’clock and the siren
kicks him from a dream,
tries to shake it off
but it just won’t stop.
Can’t find the strength
but he’s got promises to keep,
and wood to chop before he sleeps.
I may never get over
but never’s better than now,
I’ve got bases to cover.
He’s in the parking lot
and he’s just sitting in his car.
It’s nine o’clock
but he can’t get out.
He lights a cigarette
and turns the music down,
but just can’t seem
to shake that sound.
Once I thought I’d get over
but it’s too late for me now,
I’ve got bases to cover.
Melody walks through the door
and memory flies out the window.
Nobody knows what they want
until they finally let it all go.
The pain inside,
coming outside.
The pain inside,
coming outside…
So many ways to drown a man,
so many ways to drag him down.
Some are fast and some
take years and years.
Can’t hear what he’s saying
when he’s talking in his sleep.
He finally found the sound
but he’s in too deep.
I could never get over,
is it too late for me now?
Feel like blowing my cover!
Melody walks through the door
and memory flies out the window.
Nobody knows what they want
until they finally let it all go.
But don’t cut your losses too soon
because you’ll only be cutting your throat.
Answer a call while you still hear at all
because nobody will if you won’t.
“Six o’clock on a Christmas morning…”
“I know all about the honor of God, Mary Jane…”
2. Caught in a Web
Silence disguised I watch you,
show me the hurt that haunts you.
Would you despise the thrill
if all you hide were mine?
I can’t hold on any longer,
these feelings keep growing stronger.
Echoes that deafen the mind
will bury my voice in their wake.
Caught in a web,
removed from the world.
Hanging on by a thread,
spinning the lies
devised in my head.
I’ve seen the path, the one you take,
shows the truth for you to make.
This turn of phrase we might not see
is the thirst of desire found so easily.
Try to push me
’round the world some more
and make me live in fear.
I bare all that I am made of now.
Attractive, I don’t care!
Because even when I danced with life
no one was there to share.
Does this voice
the wounds of your soul?
Does this voice
the wounds of your soul?
Caught in a web,
removed from the world.
Hanging on by a thread,
spinning the lies
devised in my head.
Tried to live the life you live and saw,
it doesn’t work for me.
I bare all that I am made of now,
attractive I can’t be!
Inside the dance of life
is one I’ll never hold to me.
You can’t heal
the wounds of my soul!
You can’t heal
the wounds of my soul!
Caught in a web,
removed from the world.
Hanging on by a thread,
spinning the lies
devised in my head.
Caught in a web,
refused by the world.
Hanging on by a thread,
spinning a cage
denied and misread.
3. Innocence Faded
Animation breathes a cloudless mind,
fascination leaves the doubting blind.
Until the circle breaks and wisdom lies ahead,
the faithful live awake, the rest remain misled.
Some will transcend spinning years,
one as if time disappears.
Innocence faded,
the mirror falls behind you.
Trinity jaded,
I break down walls to find you.
Callow and vain,
fixed like a fossil.
Shrouding pain!
Passionless stage,
distant like brothers.
Wearing apathetic displays,
sharing flesh like envy in cages.
Condescending, not intending to end.
Some will transcend spinning years,
one as if time disappears.
Innocence faded,
the mirror falls behind you.
Trinity jaded,
I break down walls to find you.
Beginnings get complicated
the farther we progress.
Opinions are calculated,
immune to openness.
Beyond the circle’s edge
we’re driven by her blessings.
Forever hesitating
caught beneath the wheel.
Innocence faded,
the mirror falls behind you.
Cynically jaded,
the child will crawl to find you.
4. A Mind Beside Itself (Part 1: Erotomania)
(Instrumental)
5. A Mind Beside Itself (Part 2: Voices)
“Love, just don’t stare!”
he used to say to me
every sunday morning.
The spider in the window,
the angel in the pool.
The old man takes the poison,
now the widow makes the rules.
“So speak,
I’m right here!”
She used to say to me
not a word, not a word.
Judas on the ceiling,
the Devil in my bed.
I guess Easter’s never coming,
so I’ll just wait inside my head.
Like a scream but sort of silent,
living off my nightmares!
Voices repeating me!
“Feeling threatened?
We reflect your hopes and fears.”
Voices discussing me!
“Others steal your thoughts,
they’re not confined within your mind.”
Thought disorder, dream control!
Now they read my mind on the radio,
but where was the Garden of Eden?
I feel elated, I feel depressed.
Sex is death, death is sex.
Says it right here on my crucifix.
Like a scream but sort of silent,
living off my nightmares!
Voices protecting me!
“Good behavior brings
the savior to his knees.”
Voices rejecting me!
“Others steal your thoughts,
they’re not confined to your own mind.”
“I don’t wanna be here,
’cause of my suffering,
’cause of my illness.
Only love is worth having,
only love is what matters.
Loving every people on equal terms!
You’ve got to know who you’re dealin’ with
because like a stranger just might come in
through here with a gun and then
what would you do?
Everything is immaterial!
You know that reality is immaterial!
This is not reality!”
I’m kneeling on the floor,
staring at the wall
like the spider in the window.
I wish that I could speak.
Is there fantasy in refuge,
God in politicians?
Should I turn on my religion?
These demons in my head tell me to!
I’m lying here in bed and
swear my skin is inside out,
just another Sunday morning.
Seen my diary on the newsstand,
seems we’ve lost the truth to quicksand.
It’s a shame no one is praying,
because these voices in my head keep saying:
“Love, just don’t stare,
reveal the word when
you’re supposed to.”
Withdrawn and introverted,
infectiously perverted.
“Being laughed at and confused,
keeps us pleasantly amused enough to stay.”
Maybe I’m just Cassandra fleeting,
twentieth century icon bleeding.
Willing to risk salvation
to escape from isolation.
I’m witness to redemption,
heard you speak but never listened.
Can you rid me of my secrets,
deliver us from darkness?
Voices repeating me!
“Feeling threatened?
We reflect your hopes and fears.”
Voices discussing me!
Don’t expect your own Messiah!
This neverworld which you desire
is only in your mind.
6. A Mind Beside Itself (Part 3: The Silent Man)
A question well served:
Is silence like a fever,
a voice never heard,
or a message with no receiver?
Pray they won’t ask,
behind the stained glass
there’s always one more mask.
Has man been a victim
of his woman, of his father?
If he elects not to bother
will he suffocate their faith?
Desperate to fall
behind the great wall
that separates us all.
When there is reason,
tonight I’m awake.
When there’s no answer,
arrive the silent man.
If there is balance,
tonight he’s awake.
If they have to suffer,
there lies the silent man.
Sin without deceivers,
a God with no believers.
I could sail by on the winds of silence
and maybe they won’t notice.
But this time I think,
it’d be better if I swim.
When there is reason,
tonight I’m awake.
When there’s no answer,
arrive the silent man.
If there is balance,
tonight he’s awake.
If they have to suffer,
there lies the silent man.
There lies the silent man!
7. The Mirror
Temptation, why won’t you leave me alone?
Lurking every corner, everywhere I go.
Self-control, don’t turn your back on me now
when I need you the most!
Constant pressure tests my will,
my will or my wont.
My self-control escapes from me still.
Hypocrite, how could you be so cruel
and expect my faith in return?
Resistance is not as hard as it seems
when you close the door.
I spent so long
trusting in you.
I trust you, forgot just
when I thought I believed in you.
“What’re you doing,
what’re you doing?”
It’s time for me to deal,
becoming all too real.
Living in fear,
why did you lie and pretend?
This has to come to an end,
I’ll never trust you again.
It’s time you made your amends,
look in the mirror my friend.
“That I haven’t behaved as I should.”
“Everything you need is around you,
the only danger is inside you.”
“I thought you could control life,
but it’s not like that.
There are things you can’t control.”
Let’s stare the problem right in the eye,
it’s plagued me from coast to coast.
Racing the clock to please everyone,
all but the one who matters the most.
Reflections of reality,
are slowly coming into view.
How in the Hell could you
possibly forgive me?
After all the Hell
I put you through!
It’s time for me to deal,
becoming all too real.
Living in fear,
why’d I betray my friend?
Lying until the end,
living life so pretend?
It’s time to make my amends,
I’ll never hurt you again.
8. Lie
Daybreak at the bottom of the lake,
it’s a hundred degrees, I can’t breathe.
I won’t get out ’til I figure it out
though I’m weak like I can’t believe.
So you tell me “trust me”,
I can trust you,
just let me show you.
But I gotta work it out
in a shadow of doubt,
because I don’t know
if I know you.
Doing fine but don’t waste my time,
tell me what it is you want to say.
You sin, you win, just let me in.
Hurry, I’ve been out in the rain all day.
So you tell me “trust me”,
I can trust you as far
as I can throw you.
I’m trying to get
out of a shadow of doubt,
because I don’t know
if I know you.
Don’t tell me you wanted me,
don’t tell me you thought of me.
I won’t, I swear I won’t!
I’ll try, I swear I’ll try!
Mother Mary quite contrary,
kiss the boys and make them wary.
Things are getting just
a little bit scary.
it’s a wonder I can still breathe!
Never been much of a doubting Thomas,
but nothing breaks like a broken promise.
You tell me about your two more coming,
but once is just enough for me.
Don’t tell me you wanted me,
don’t tell me you thought of me.
I won’t, I swear I won’t!
I’ll try, I swear I’ll try!
I had gotten used to
being a soul destroyed,
she comes in apparently
to fill the void.
All dogs need a leash
and at least I’ll forget it.
She would never hurt me
though she’s never said it.
But I’m not gonna ask her today,
I don’t wanna scare her away.
Your town, I’m all alone,
and I just can’t stare
at the phone.
I wanna talk about
lifelong mistakes,
and you can tell your
stepfather I said so.
Don’t tell me you wanted me,
don’t tell me you thought of me.
I won’t, I swear I won’t!
I’ll try, I swear I’ll try!
9. Lifting Shadows Off a Dream
He seems alone and silent,
thoughts remain without an answer.
Afraid and uninvited
he slowly drifts away.
Moved by desire and fear,
breaking delicate wings.
Lifting shadows off
a dream once broken,
she can turn a drop of water
into an ocean.
As the rain is pouring down,
tears of sorrow wash his mind.
Drifting with the current
this stream of life flows on.
He seems alone and silent,
waiting on his hands and knees.
The chill of winter’s darkness
sits quietly.
Moved by desire and fear,
he takes a few steps away.
Lifting shadows off
a dream once broken.
She can turn a drop of water
into an ocean.
And she listens…
And she listens openly!
He pours his soul into the water,
reflecting the mystery.
She carries him away
and the winds die slowly.
And she listens openly!
And she listens openly!
Lifting shadows off
a dream once broken.
She can turn a drop of water
into an ocean.
Lifting Shadows off a dream…
10. Scarred
To rise, to fall,
to hurt, to hate,
to want, to wait,
to heal, to save.
Can’t hear it, we fear it,
awareness won’t come near it.
Distractive, reactive,
disguised in spite of time.
I never bared my emotion,
my passion always strong.
I never lost my devotion
but somewhere fate went wrong.
Can’t let them rape me again,
your venom’s not family here.
Won’t let them fill me
with fatalistic remedies.
What if the rest of the world
was hopelessly blinded by fear?
Where would my sanctity live,
suddenly nobody cares.
It’s never enough,
you’re wasting your time.
Isn’t there something
I could say?
You don’t understand,
you’re closing me out.
How can we live our
lives this way?
You tell me I’m wrong,
I’m risking my life.
Still I have nothing
in return.
I show you my hands,
you don’t see the scars.
Maybe you’ll leave me
here to burn.
What if the rest of the world
was hopelessly drowning in vain?
Where would our self-pity run,
suddenly everyone cares.
Blood heal me,
fear change me.
Belief will always save me.
Blood swearing,
fear, staring.
Conviction made aware.
Give up on misery,
turn your back on dissent.
Leave their distrust behind,
wash your hands of regret.
Do you feel you
don’t know me anymore?
Do you feel I’m
afraid of your love?
How come you don’t want me asking?
How come my heart’s not invited?
You say you want everyone happy,
well we’re not laughing.
How come you don’t understand me?
How come I don’t understand you?
Thirty years say we’re in this together,
so open your eyes!
People in prayer for me,
everyone there for me.
Sometimes I feel I
should face this alone.
My soul exposed,
it calms me to know
that I won’t.
Blood heal me,
fear change me.
Belief will always save me.
Blood swearing,
fear, staring.
Conviction made aware.
Give up on misery,
turn your back on dissent.
Leave their distrust behind,
wash your hands of regret.
Blood heal me,
fear change me.
Belief will always save me.
Blood swearing,
fear, staring.
Conviction made aware.
Learning from misery,
staring back at dissent.
Leaving distrust behind,
I’m inspired and content.
11. Space-Dye Vest
Falling through pages of martens on angels,
feeling my heart pull west.
I saw the future dressed as a stranger,
love in a space-dye vest.
Love is an act of blood and I’m bleeding
a pool in the shape of a heart.
Beauty projection in the reflection’s
always the worst way to start.
“But he’s the sort who
can’t know anyone intimately,
least of all a woman.
He doesn’t know what a woman is.
He wants you for a possession,
something to look at like
a painting or an ivory box.
Something to own and to display!
He doesn’t want you to be real,
or to think or to live.
He doesn’t love you,
but I love you!
I want you to have your own thoughts
and ideas and feelings,
even when I hold you in my arms.
It’s our last chance,
it’s our last chance!”
Now that you’re gone
I’m trying to take it,
learning to swallow the rage.
Found a new girl
and I think we can make it,
as long as she stays on the page.
This is not how I want it to end
and I’ll never be open again.
“I was gonna move out,
get a job, get my own place.
But I go into the mall where I want to work,
and they tell me I’m, I was too young.”
“Some people gave advice before
about facing the facts, about facing reality.
This is, this without a doubt,
is his biggest challenge ever.
He’s going to have to face it,
you’re gonna have to try.
He’s gonna to have to try
and get some help here.
I mean no one can say
they know how he feels.”
“That, so they say that
in ya know like,
Houston or something.
You’d say it’s a hundred
and eighty degrees,
but it’s a dry heat.
In Houston they say that?
Oh, maybe not!
I’m all mixed up.
Dry until they hit
the swimming pool.”
“I get up with the sun, listen!
You have your own room to sleep in.
I don’t care what you do,
I don’t care when.
That door gets locked,
that door gets locked
at night by nine o’clock.
If you’re not in this house
by nine o’clock then you’d better
find some place to sleep.
Because you’re not going
to be a bum in this house.
Supper is ready!”
There’s no one to take my
blame if they wanted to.
There’s nothing to keep me sane
and it’s all the same to you.
There’s nowhere to set my aim,
so I’m everywhere.
Never come near me again,
do you really think I need you?
I’ll never be open again,
I could never be open again.
I’ll never be open again,
I could never be open again.
I’ll smile and I’ll learn to pretend,
I’ll never be open again.
I’ll have no more dreams to defend,
I’ll never be open again.
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